Yesterday’s developer update showed off the upcoming changes to licensed Killer Freddy Krueger (AKA The Nightmare), along with some QoL changes to the Deep Wound mechanic, a new Realm Repeat Prevention feature, and free Character Trials during Events. Today, the Public Test Beta patch for 8.5.0 has gone live, and with it come patch notes that shed additional light on the new features and the upcoming Freddy rework.
One of the most notable changes — and the one that wasn’t clear yesterday — is the movement speed added to the Dream Snares (the pools of blood Freddy can put down). It now appears that the Dream Snares are no longer traps you can leave on loops, but instead function as projectiles that presumably slide across the ground.
The Dream Pallets are obviously much more flexible now that they can be exploded, but there’s another crucial change to them that’s Survivor-favored: Dream Pallets will now stun Freddy, unlike in live where they do nothing to the Killer. I’d still probably rather face the old Dream Pallets though.
There are lots of new Nightmare Addon changes and features in the patch notes, plus some Perk Updates that were not part of the Developer...
